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progree

(10,909 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 11:17 PM Mar 2015

Missouri lieutenant governor: ‘There is more racism in the Justice Department’ than in the St. Louis

Last edited Wed Mar 18, 2015, 12:01 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: Yahoo News

Full title: "Missouri lieutenant governor: ‘There is more racism in the Justice Department’ than in the St. Louis area"

Missouri’s lieutenant governor lashed out at the Justice Department on Monday, accusing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama administration of racism in the wake of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in Ferguson last year.

There is more racism in the Justice Department than there is in anywhere I see in the St. Louis area,” Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder said in an interview with NewsMaxTV Monday. “We are making progress. We’ve come an enormous way in 50 years. That’s not to say we don’t have still have more to do. But it is the left — it is the Eric Holder and Obama left — and their minions who are obsessed with race, while the rest of us are moving on beyond it.

Kinder, a Republican, criticized the administration for “[inciting] a mob” during the protests that followed Brown’s killing.

The whole blowup of this protest movement was based on the lie that never happened of ‘hands up don’t shoot,’ ” Kinder said in remarks that were first reported by BuzzFeed. “It’s bad enough the protesters were behaving that way, but we have a right to expect much more from the attorney general, the head of the Justice Department of the United States, and the president of the United States. And instead, what we got too often from them was incitement of the mob, and, uh, encouraging disorder in Ferguson and disrupting the peaceable going-about of our daily lives in the greater St. Louis region.”

He added: “Many of them have spent most of their careers defending Black Panthers and other violent radicals.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/missouri-ferguson-obama-justice-department-racist-st-louis-kinder-141254076.html



I know it's naiveté on my part, but I'm still shocked that a public official, particularly at the level of Lieutenant Governor, can be so publicly knuckle-headed and blatant and spew this stuff at such great length. It sounds like a full half hour of the Rush Limbaugh show.
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Missouri lieutenant governor: ‘There is more racism in the Justice Department’ than in the St. Louis (Original Post) progree Mar 2015 OP
Oh... 3catwoman3 Mar 2015 #1
The tea-bagger politicians have as much credibility as Fox. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #2
Was he frothing at the mouth when he said that shit! sheshe2 Mar 2015 #3
I think he cleaned up. But he looks like he's about to go at it again progree Mar 2015 #5
He... sheshe2 Mar 2015 #7
Being against racism is racism. PeteSelman Mar 2015 #4
There is along tradition of racism in St. Louis wilt the stilt Mar 2015 #6
Today Al Sharpton offered him all the air time he needs moondust Mar 2015 #8
LOL. I'm glad this is getting attention. nm progree Mar 2015 #9
He will ride this to the Governor's seat Midnight Writer Mar 2015 #10
it's like parallel evil SS enterprise. you can't hide. pansypoo53219 Mar 2015 #11
Apparently Missouri needs a new lieutenant governor Android3.14 Mar 2015 #12

progree

(10,909 posts)
5. I think he cleaned up. But he looks like he's about to go at it again
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 12:21 AM
Mar 2015

Last edited Wed Mar 18, 2015, 02:24 AM - Edit history (1)

ON EDIT: I found a much smaller pic:



It figures:

sheshe2

(83,791 posts)
7. He...
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 12:41 AM
Mar 2015
“There is more racism in the Justice Department than there is in anywhere I see in the St. Louis area,” Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder said in an interview with NewsMaxTV Monday. “We are making progress. We’ve come an enormous way in 50 years. That’s not to say we don’t have still have more to do. But it is the left — it is the Eric Holder and Obama left — and their minions who are obsessed with race, while the rest of us are moving on beyond it.”


Ya, you sure have come a long way baby in 50 years!!!!~

Clueless in St Louis, Mr Kinder. This is progress? WTF! This is what you call progress? Explain this.

#Ferguson town leadership was running a multi million dollar racketeering & extortion scheme


Where are the arrest warrants for those involved in the shake down of poor black people in #Ferguson Missouri? In a city with a population of 21,000 people, 16,000 have outstanding warrants. Nearly everyone was criminalize. The police and courts made it a crime to exist in black skin. We live in a country where a state government is running a multi million dollar racketeering & extortion scheme targeting black people & no one is arrested. Kwame M. Kilpatrick was convicted of racketeering, fraud and extortion but Ferguson town leaders got severance pay. It’s disgraceful when those in power see a crime and squeeze their eyes shut because the racketeer & extortionist have white skin. But when you’re white, it’s alriiiight.


Read More http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026372768

!@#$%^&*(*UYT%$#@!@#$%^(! What an ass!

No problem with the large photo progree, one must stare evil in their large ugly faces.

Thank you for your OP~
 

wilt the stilt

(4,528 posts)
6. There is along tradition of racism in St. Louis
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 12:30 AM
Mar 2015

My dad was not allowed to swim in the public pools and no city treated Jackie Robinson worse.

moondust

(19,993 posts)
8. Today Al Sharpton offered him all the air time he needs
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 01:02 AM
Mar 2015

to come on the program and specify/substantiate/document/support his claims about the DOJ on national TV.

Good move, Al.

Midnight Writer

(21,768 posts)
10. He will ride this to the Governor's seat
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 02:14 AM
Mar 2015

Just read Seth Rosenfeld's excellent book "Subversives" about Ronald Reagan riding the backlash from Berkeley College protests to the California Governor's office (with the assistance of FBI). Rosenfeld spent 27 years suing the US government for 300,000 pages of FBI documents and the tactics used then are the exact same ones that are being used today.

 

Android3.14

(5,402 posts)
12. Apparently Missouri needs a new lieutenant governor
Wed Mar 18, 2015, 05:57 AM
Mar 2015

Preferably one without a penis between his shoulders.

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